Age Quotes
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.Shaftesbury
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.Albert Einstein
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.Andre Maurois
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high - Class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.Katharine Hepburn
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.Candice Bergen
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.Sir Harold George Nicolson
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food - Outside are only great stretches of freedom.Nicanor Parra
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - A scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - Is essentially poetry.Jesse Louis Jackson
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.Mark Twain
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high - Class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.Katharine Hepburn
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.Cicero
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Jean Jacques Rousseau
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.Anatole France
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.Trotsky
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.George Washington
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - First to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.Albert Camus
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.Matthew Arnold
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Francis Quarles
Courage is one step ahead of fear.Coleman Young
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.Sir W. Temple
Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need.Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.Kahlil Gibran
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.Alexander Hamilton
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.Johnson
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.Saint Augustine
